17 Bible Verses about The Inward Being

Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner [person] is being renewed day after day. For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion}, [because] we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen [is] temporary, but what is not seen [is] eternal.

Behold, you delight [in] truth in the inward parts, and in [the] hidden [parts] you make me to know wisdom.

The lamp of Yahweh [is] the spirit of humankind, he who searches every {innermost part}.

Fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?

But the Jew {is one inwardly}, and circumcision [is] of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter, whose praise [is] not from people but from God.

But give [as] charitable giving the things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.

The blows of a wound will cleanse evil, as will beatings of the {innermost part}.

"Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside are ravenous wolves.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greediness and wickedness.

In the [same] way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not see him or know [him]. You know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

All these evil [things] come from within and defile a person."

Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner [person] is being renewed day after day.

but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable [quality] of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is highly valuable in the sight of God.